Improved lounge



@uiten gisten stw'f @High VWILLIAM C. HART, OF N ANTUOKET, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- -SVELF AND 'CHARLES S. JONES. OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent'No. 78,204dated May 26, V1868.

IMPROVED Leones.

TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

, Be it known 'that I, WILLIAM C. HART, of the town and county of Nantucket, of the State of Massachusetts,

A have invented a. new and seful or'Improved Lounge; and do hereby declare the same to he fully described in the following speeiication,an d represented 'in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure isa. top view, i Figure 2 a front'elevation, Figure 3 a rear elevation, and

Figures 4 and 5 are end views of il'.4 1 This lounge, instead of havingits back stationary or fixed, so aste 'be immovable relatively rto the seat and header arm-rest, as is the case with the backs of common lounges, has a reversible back,'that is, one which nay be turned over from o ne side to the other of the seat, and the head or arm-rest, the same being for the purpose of enabling the lounge to be used either as a right or left lounge.

In such respect it is somewhat analogous to the common railway-'car seat, provided with4 a reversible back, 'but it diiers therefrom .in certain particulars, for in the/said car-seat the connectionsof the hack with the seat are jointed to the middles of the upper parts of the arm-rests, whereas, in my lounge, the connections of the" hackare jointed directly to the foot of the seat, and to the end. of the head of the hody.

. I 'In the drawings, A denotes the body, and B the back of the lounge.

The said back is shaped very much likethesole of a shoe, .and it has two connection-bars, C C, extended `from its opposite ends, one of such hars; being arranged against the extreme end of the foot, and the otheragaihst the extreme end of the head of the body A.

Joint-pins or journals an, extending from the mid'riie's of theends of the .head and foot of the bodyl,enter the tworconnection-bars, and connect them to the body. VThe back, so connected' with the body, but being separate from it in other'respects, nay be lturned to`either side of the body, the connection-hars, when 4the back is in either of Such positions,`being supported on shoulders or props, arranged as shown at b and'c'in the drawings. i n K v My invention enables the back of the lounge to .be arranged so as to project upward from either side of the body, the advantage-of'suclrbeing that it enables the head of the lounge tobe arranged in either of two opposite dircctionswith respect to and with the back against the wall "or partition. s

I make no claiin to the well-known'arrangement of a reversible back and its conuecton-barswith the two 4 arms of a sofa or seat of a railway-carriage chair.

What I claim as my invention, is The improved lounge, as made with the reversible back, and with the connections and supports thereof,

y applied to and arranged with the two extremes of the body of such lounge,substantially in manner as specified.

W. o HART.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. P. HALE, J-r. 

